[Gllug] laptops (was Sony Vaio)

Sean Burlington sean at uncertainty.org.uk
Fri May 3 15:21:03 UTC 2002


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I thought AMD processors ran hot - which sounds like a bad thing for small 
computers.

anyway I don't know where else you can get pre-installed linux laptops

On Friday 03 May 2002 3:41 pm, Tim Gray wrote:
> > has anyone tried http://www.dnuk.com/store/notebooks.php ?
>
> They look good, my only criticism is that they don't do any AMD stuff.
>
> Tim
>
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> From: "Sean Burlington" <sean at uncertainty.org.uk>
> To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 3:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] laptops (was Sony Vaio)
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> > has anyone tried http://www.dnuk.com/store/notebooks.php ?
> >
> > at prices from 705 (+ VAT) - and no M$ tax it looks very apealing to me
> >
> > I've bought desktops from them and been very happy ...
> >
> > On Friday 03 May 2002 2:32 pm, Martyn Drake wrote:
> > > On Fri, 3 May 2002 13:16:08 +0000 Tushar Joshi wrote:
> > > > I was looking at that today, 512mb ram 30 gig HD 1.2 G cpu, 15'1 TFT
> > > > at only 1200 including!
> > >
> > > Yes, they're well specced in terms of memory and CPU power, but I've
> > > had endless problems with Advent.  I remember buying one from PC World,
> > > getting it home and using Windows on it quite satisfactory for a couple
> > > of days.
> > >
> > > I came around to installing SuSE 7.2 on it, and as soon as I did, the
> > > screen died horribly and I couldn't get the machine to work ever again.
> > > Went to PC World the next day for an exchange.
> > >
> > > I'v found that the Advent's hard drives are pretty slow and
> > > unimpressive as well - which is another reason why I don't touch them. 
> > > They also have pretty rubbish graphics cards.
> > >
> > > > Although it looks a bit tacky.
> > >
> > > And that's another reason - it's all adding up ;)
> > >
> > > > Although the HP presario looks very good it doesn't have a serial
> > > > port so I can't connect to cisco boxes etc.
> > >
> > > I wouldn't touch HP stuff either.  Your best bet is the Dell range of
> > > laptops.  They're always extremely well specced all round, and you get
> > > good support for them as well.  Go for Dell :)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Martyn
> >
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